January 27 - 29, 2013
Atlanta, Georgia USA
Hilton Garden Inn -- Atlanta Airport North
3437 Bobby Brown Parkway
East Point, Georgia 30344
404.477.6600
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Hannu Melarti delivering keynote at the 2012 Conference
"Motivating Innovation & Utilizing Electronic Networking"
Jim Thompson (left) and Bill Vallance at the 2012 Conference in Atlanta
Bill has attended every Light Green Machine Institute Conference.
Tentative Agenda
Sunday 27 Jan 13
Reviewing the past year's LGMI Weekly Ideas...
What have we learned? How can we apply?
Group Discussion
Responsible Decision Making
"Using all your data sources to make better decisions"
Rod Fisher, Fisher International
Reception for those who have attended the afternoon sessions.
Monday 28 Jan 13
Beyond Boiler MACT--The coming limits on combustion for energy
"The impact of the recent US elections"
Jim Thompson, CEO, Talo Analytic International, Inc.
Enzymes and Chemicals
What are the latest "juices" and what can they do for us?
"The benefit of Enzyme Applications in the Pulp & Paper Industry"
Enzymes have been used in the paper industry for many years. Applications include bleaching improvement, boilouts, fiber modification for improving paper properties, deinking, stickies control, drainage, refining energy reduction and pitch control.
This presentation will give a brief overview of enzyme applications in pulp and paper followed b a more detailed discussion of the use of xylanases in the bleaching of kraft pulps.
Tom Woodward, EnzKem
"General Experiences with Enzymes"
Brian Murdoch, Technical Sales Director, Enzyme Development Corporation
Energy Efficiency--how far can we push it?
"Improving Kraft Pulping with digester additives"
Brian Brogdon, Executive Director, Light Green Machine Institute
"High Kappa Linerboard"
Anders Hjort, Metso Sweden
"A run down the machine"
Gary Wamsley, JoGar Energy Services
"In the coating kitchen"
Chemical storage, in the coating kitchen and elsewhere, takes up a tremendous amount of space, is difficult to inventory and is generally a pain. This paper discusses how to efficiently handle these issues with innovative thinking.
Mark Crable, Crable Engineering
"More Energy Efficiency"
Energy paper machine energy scorecards are an effective tool for benchmarking paper machine energy performance and identifying opportunities for improvement. Paper machine energy evaluations have identified annual savings opportunities ranging from $100,000 to $10 million on individual machines depending on current operation and energy cost. This presentation will provide an overview of evaluating energy performance and typical opportunities to reduce energy use.
Dick Reese, Dick Reese & Associates
"Advances in Plantation Systems and Implications for Biomass Production"
Bio-energy forest plantations will supplement woody biomass from other sources such as logging residues. In the southern US, projections are for an increase of up to 25 million “new” tons of demand for bio-energy. To supply this woody biomass demand will require purpose grown plantations of various species including pine, eucalypts, sweetgum and cottonwood, amongst others. Forest plantation yields can be 8-15 green tons/acre/year on rotations of 5-12 years.
Jeff Wright, ArborGen, Inc.
Evening workshop
The decision: more capital or more operating costs?
A hands on spreadsheet exercise
Jim Thompson, CEO, Talo Analytic International, Inc.
Tuesday Morning 29 Jan 13
Breakthroughs in Equipment Design and Maintenance
Maintenance
Torbjorn Idhammer, IDCON
"Innovation Aeration Technologies that multi-task and save energy"
To varying degrees, all integrated pulp and paper mills must treat their waste water. For those that use mechanically generated oxygen from traditional aeration technologies, there are inherent processing inefficiencies and the cost of the required energy can be quite high. Today there are now available, new equipment/impeller design technologies that provide multiple processing functionalities while using up to 50% less energy.
Marc Mosley, Philadelphia Mixing Solutions
If you or your organization are interested in speaking, please contact:
Dr. Brian Brogdon, Executive Director (brian.brogdon@gmail.com)
Past Speakers include:
Hannu Melarti -- Keynote
Walter Lamp, FMW Austria
Dr. Lucian Lucia, North Carolina State University
Mike Ryan, Process Laboratories
Larry Wells, independent controls consultant
Dr. Peter Hart, MWV Corporation
Dr. Brian Brogdon, Future Bridge Consulting and Training, LLC
Jon Kerr, Miami Univeristy and Andritz
Douglas Mancosky, Hyro Dynamics, Inc.
Anders Hjort, Metso Sweden
Marc Mosley, Philadelphia Mixiing Solutions
Dick Reese, Dick Reese & Associates
Dr. Jeff Hsieh, Georgia Tech
Frank Cunnane, Cristini, North America
Helmut Tausel, Voith
David Bennett, Corrosion Probe, Inc.
Ed Turner, G & E Solutions